18+ anime style music rhythm game Muse Dash has become a sudden hit on TikTok. It also boosted the popularity of the Wallpaper Engine app along the way.

The Steam Game Festival: February 2021 will run from February 3, 2021 until February 9, 2021.

Simon Carless posted the results of the Steam revenue survey, which around 100 developers took part in. The survey asked about the gross revenue generated on Steam in Week 1, and then asked ‘what multiple of that revenue did you have at the end of Month 1? How about Year 1?’ 

Valve might be gearing up for the merger of the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If it happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (currently only dozens of foreign titles are licensed a year).

In the latest entry to his Discoverability blog, Simon Carless discusses the Steam refund rate as a potentially significant metric.

GOG GALAXY has started testing a new option to buy games from other stores via the GOG GALAXY launcher. As part of the internal beta, select GOG GALAXY users will be able to purchase certain “hand-picked Epic Games Store exclusive titles.”

Lars A. Doucet, co-founder of indie studio Level Up Labs (Defender’s Quest I and II), has launched a new website called GameDataCrunch.

In the latest blog post, discoverability guru Simon Carless discusses how developers or publishers’ net revenue compares to what gamers actually spend on the game.

Detroit: Become Human has sold more than five million units, developer Quantic Dream announced via a press release.

Simon Carless, the author of Game Discoverability Weekly newsletter, wrote a post arguing it’s time to re-evaluate the lifetime review/sales ratio on Steam.

The Epic Games Store reached 61 million monthly active users as a result of its game giveaway campaign, “The Vault.”

A number of indie developers are removing their games from Steam citing Valve’s failure to address the Black Lives Matter movement. By no longer profiting from the store, these devs refuse to remain “complicit with their silence on hate” in favour of “white angry male gamers.”

A number of indie developers have removed their games Steam citing Valve’s failure to address the Black Lives Matter movement.

Steam China has stealthily graduated to an alpha stage, according to WIN.gg.

Valve has rolled out a new experiment that will point players towards the next game they might want to play from their library.

Steam has posted last week’s top 10 best-selling games. A month after its release, DOOM Eternal has claimed the top spot.